Stakeknife ‘is not in army custody’
As a lawyer for Freddie Scappaticci, 45, from west Belfast, insisted he had never been an informer or had contact with the intelligence services, an MoD spokesman said he was not with them.
Security sources said police and troops had been involved in an operation to move him out of Belfast early on Sunday, but confusion about his whereabouts, and his codename, deepened yesterday.
